Spacex Targeting Nov 25 Falcon 9 Launch From Cape Canaveral

SpaceX is now targeting Nov. 25 for its first create of an upgraded Falcon 9 close from Aim Canaveral Air Resolve Trench, one week after NASA's planned create of the MAVEN authorize to Mars on an Plot V close from a come up to create pad. "We needed a baby bit above time to think up sure the create site was series for us, and needed to agree to the strap a baby bit of rest," SpaceX Go Gwynne Shotwell thought Wednesday. "They've been working honestly, honestly hard to get this flight off."

In calculation to commence the first Florida create of the taller, above persuasive Falcon 9, after a test flight from California, the authorize is furthermore SpaceX's first create of a big business communications satellite to geosynchronous use field about 22,000 miles former the planet.

NASA, meanwhile, is targeting a 1:28 p.m. EST create this Monday of the 671 million MAVEN authorize atop a Combined Present Fraternity Plot V close. The authorize skin an orbiter that hand down testing the Red Planet's better mood and how it has misrepresented over time.

Shotwell's update about the big business create, which had been planned for Nov. 22, came in the sphere of a press conference celebrating the end of a NASA program that helped SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp. appearance new rockets and spacecraft to resupply the Mixed Hole Trench.

The Small business Orbital Road and rail network Facilities program, or COTS, became a model NASA long-drawn-out to crewed flights. The agency hopes to fly astronauts to the station commercially by 2017.

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